† croisesn.
Obsolete.
With plural agreement. Those who have been ‘croised’, crusaders. (Apparently sometimes used by modern writers as an archaism for Crusades, and supplied with inferred singular croise.)
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Croises (cruce signati), pilgrims. See Croysado.
c1750 W. Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey 248 How oft he blew The croise's trumpet.
a1770 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. (1773) V. 400 To instruct the croisez, to comfort them.
1779 Archaeologia 5 19 When the English croisees went into the East in the first Crusade.
1846 Peter Parley's Ann. 18 The wars of the croises.
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